Crossword clues for larceny
larceny
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Larceny \Lar"ce*ny\, n.; pl. Larcenies. [F. larcin, OE. larrecin, L. latrocinium, fr. latro robber, mercenary, hired servant; cf. Gr. (?) hired servant. Cf. Latrociny.] (Law) The unlawful taking and carrying away of things personal with intent to deprive the right owner of the same; theft. Cf. Embezzlement.
Grand larceny & Petit larceny are distinctions having reference to the nature or value of the property stolen. They are abolished in England.
Mixed larceny, or Compound larceny, that which, under statute, includes in it the aggravation of a taking from a building or the person.
Simple larceny, that which is not accompanied with any aggravating circumstances.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., with -y (3) + Anglo-French larcin (late 13c.), from Old French larrecin, larcin "theft, robbery" (11c.), from Latin latrocinium "robbery, freebooting, highway-robbery, piracy," from latro "robber, bandit," also "hireling, mercenary," ultimately from a Greek source akin to latron "pay, hire, wages," from a suffixed form of PIE root *le- (1) "to get."
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context legal English) The unlawful taking of personal property as an attempt to deprive the legal owner of it permanently. 2 (context legal English) A larcenous act attributable to an individual.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Larceny is a crime involving the unlawful taking of the personal property of another person or business. It was an offence under the common law of England and became an offence in jurisdictions which incorporated the common law of England into their own law.
Larceny has been abolished in England and Wales, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland due to breaking up the generalised crime of larceny into the specific crimes of burglary, robbery, fraud, theft, and related crimes. However, larceny remains an offence in parts of the United States and in New South Wales, Australia, involving the taking (caption) and carrying away (asportation) of personal property.
The Larceny Project is a set of computer programming languages, specifically Scheme implementations, using the Twobit optimizing Scheme compiler. Larceny is the back-end which compiles to native x86 or SPARC code, Petit Larceny is a Scheme to C compiler and Common Larceny is a Microsoft .NET compatible implementation running in the Common Language Runtime and generating Common Intermediate Language.
- Larceny is a research-quality implementation of Scheme compiler for the IA-32 (available since 1999).
- Petit Larceny is a portable implementation of Scheme compiler that compiles to C instead of machine code (available since June 2005).
Older versions (<0.98) included support for the SPARC architecture in Larceny, and for Microsoft's CLR (Common Language Runtime) in Common Larceny.
Larceny supports all major Scheme standards (RRS, IEEE/ANSI, RRS and RRS. The Larceny software is open source and available online.
Larceny is a comedy film starring Andy Dick, Joshua Leonard, and Tyra Banks.
Larceny is a form of theft.
Larceny may also refer to:
Larceny is a 1948 American film noir crime film directed by George Sherman, starring John Payne, Joan Caulfield, Dan Duryea and Shelley Winters.
Usage examples of "larceny".
Jonathan Ainsley was aware that he had larceny in his heart, accepted that he was avaricious, greedy for the good things in life, hungry for power.
I confess that I only obtained this satisfaction by a species of larceny, but I could not have succeeded if she had not been well disposed towards me.
The Commissary has known him as an indigent, good-for-nothing lubbard who has begged his way in the streets of Paris ever since he was released from gaol some months ago, after he had served a term for larceny.
Obtaining two Blades under false pretenses was at least grand larceny and would mean disaster for Ringwood and Ranter.
Treger in turn would convince Brassard that he had better rackets under his thumb than petty larceny.
Dickens, who buttled for a hobby, with grand larceny and art forgery his real vocations.
As he came across in her exuberant description, he was a happy-go-lucky sharpie with a heart full of larceny but without any vestige of a mean streak, a chipper quick-witted con man with a deck of cards in one hand and a stack of uranium stock in the other, a heavy drinker but not a sloppy one, a big spender and a good-time Charlie, a man whose sense of responsibility and need for security were about as well developed as that of the lilies of the field.
Breaking and entering, robbery, larceny, aggravated assault--the crime rate in Newport has successfully been cut in half since Chief Calvin and I sat down to map out an anticrime strategy at the beginning of his tenure here.
Dickens, who buttled for a hobby, with grand larceny and art forgery his real vocations.
I confess that I only obtained this satisfaction by a species of larceny, but I could not have succeeded if she had not been well disposed towards me.
Because the course they would probably take, after beating his story out of him, would make it difficult to collect from Lord Clivers, and would greatly complicate the matter of clearing Miss Fox of the larceny charge.
The Flo-Sun bill is such egregious larceny that it has been attacked by two local congressmen, Democrat Peter Deutsch and Republican E.
Buyers and receivers of goods taken by way of robbery or larceny, knowing them to have been so taken, shall be deemed accessaries to such robbery or larceny after the fact.
But when they aren't looking for cases of petty larceny and organised laziness, which you have to contend with in any outfit as big as ours, they're mostly just keeping in touch with the morale of the staff.
He is ignorant about many little things, such as reading and writing and geography and mathematics, as Haystack Duggeler himself admits he never goes to school any more than he can help, but he is so wise when it comes to larceny that I always figure they must have great tutors back in Haystack's old hometown of Booneville, Mo.